Unfortunately, due to the train strike it isn’t feasible to attend the camp. _sadface_On May 9th, I’ll attend the IndieWebCamp Germany in Düsseldorf. It is part of the beyond tellerrand week which I will miss as I am leaving for Austin on May 10th. That means also no second day …

Since the last weekend, I am honored to be one of the lecturers in the master course “Content Strategy” at the FH Joanneum, a University of Applied Science, in Graz, Austria. The materials are available at cos.accessibility.rocks and are freely available. In the last few …

While being in Austin for AccesU in May, the AccessU Summit takes place online. I will speak about “Web Accessibility Essentials Using WAI-ARIA and HTML5”, a short version of the course I give in person in Austin the day before. Other speakers include John Foliot, Henny Swan and …

I’m really looking forward to attending and speaking at Knowbility’s John Slatin AccessU conference in May! I will do two classes (1.5h sessions) on the following topics: Web Accessibility Essentials using WAI-ARIA and HTML5 and A Case Study for Responsive Web Design: Web …

Back in the day, there were a lot of CSS Galleries. Most have been relatively uninteresting, but CSSMania and Stylegala stood out. While the former is still going strong (yes, I’m equally surprised), the latter faded away at some time and is now a 403 error. I still find me …

Intentionally provocative statement: If a “primary button” is an emphasized button, could/should we use <em><button>Primary</button></em> instead of <button class="primary">Primary</button>?

Letterboxd is a nice website for film nerds. You can track what you have watched when and how you have liked the movie. They have just released their 2014 year in review page which is really impressive. It is quite heavy (over 3MB) but uses really large photos, so there is …

If you ever wondered how people with a sense of design see the world, see James Victore in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnhBgpd0y1Q If you like to see more of James, I can recommend his talk from Beyond Tellerrand 2013: “Your work is a gift”

Meine Hoffnung ist es, dazu beizutragen, das Thema [Kryptografie] einem noch größeren, auch nicht so technisch versierten Publikum zugänglich zu machen. Denn wenn der NSA-Skandal eines gezeigt hat, dann dass […] noch mehr Menschen die E-Mail, den Chat oder die Sofortnachricht …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDkB09hxG2w Das ARD-Magazin Panorama hat einfach mal PEGIDA-Demonstranten reden lassen und auch das Ausgangsmaterial für den Beitrag online gestellt. Im Speziellen fielen mir die Äußerungen einer Frau auf, die offensichtlich Angst hat, dass „der …

One year ago this day, it way my first day at the W3C. A lot happened during this past year: I worked on Web Accessibility Tutorials and a list of Evaluation Tools and gave input and helped build other projects. I love working in this passionate and knowledgable team. On to the …

Heinz Wittenbrink hat ein „ vorsichtiges Plädoyer für eine Doppelstrategie“ zum Posten von Beiträgen auf Medium und einem eigenen Blog veröffentlicht. Darin geht es auf der einen Seite um „SEO“ (¯_(ツ)_/¯) und zum anderem darum ob es überhaupt sinnvoll ist noch auf seinem eigenen …

Sehr interessanter (Text-)Beitrag beim Deutschlandradio Kultur über das Lernen ohne Schule.

http://vimeo.com/113711085 My talk from the Fronteers 2014 Jam Session is finally online, unfortunately without captions. 5th talk at the 5th Jam Session. I showed some of the resources we currently develop in W3C. Slides are here.

That moment when you realize that your JavaScript works when you put it outside that completely unrelated for loop…

http://player.vimeo.com/video/81496933 Advertisement for fake foie gras. Real foie gras is one the most disgusting products out there.

(The image shows PEGIDA protesters, PEGIDA = “Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the Occident”. CC-BY-NC Caruso Pinguin on Flickr.) I am really worried about the nationalist tendencies in Germany (German) these days. I wonder how blind people can be, not realising …

Robert Lender hat mir ob der Veröffentlichung von HTML5 als „Recommendation“ drei Fragen gestellt, die ich hier in diesem Blogpost beantworten möchte: ## Kannst du kurz erklären, was es bedeutet, dass HTML5 jetzt als „Recommendation“ vorliegt? In der Frage steckt schon viel drin …